My point of view

September 23, 2024

48 years of wins and losses: our Republic at the crossroads

By Dr Marlene Attzs, Economist Email: marlene.attzs@gmail.com “I beg you to pledge yourselves here and now, silently, as I did vocally, to bear true faith and […]
July 24, 2024

Climate change and the Caribbean’s multidimensional vulnerability

By Dr Marlene Attzs, Economist Email: marlene.attzs@gmail.com One outcome from the passage of Hurricane Beryl is that most of the Caribbean now is familiar with the […]
June 12, 2024

Balancing the narrative on the state of the economy

By Dr Marlene Attzs, Economist Email: marlene.attzs@gmail.com   Over the past week, there was a buzz in the country around the state of the economy.  The […]
May 29, 2024

Can we reclaim the soul of La Trinity?

By Dr Marlene Attzs, Economist Email: marlene.attzs@gmail.com   As I listened to the homily on the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, I reflected on how […]
May 15, 2024

An angry society constrains economic prosperity

By Dr Marlene Attzs, Economist Email: marlene.attzs@gmail.com   I am not a psychologist nor a psychiatrist nor a behavioural specialist. I am an economist, one with […]
April 17, 2024

Constitutional reform is ‘we business’

By Dr Marlene Attzs, Economist Email: marlene.attzs@gmail.com About two decades ago, I found myself traipsing around Trinidad and Tobago as a notetaker for the Constitutional Reform […]
March 27, 2024

Imagining Trinidad and Tobago’s economic resurrection

By Dr Marlene Attzs, Economist Email: marlene.attzs@gmail.com   Desmond Tutu famously said, “The resurrection is a powerful reminder that even in the darkest of times, there […]
February 21, 2024

Leaving no one behind: the Carnival contract is in we DNA

By Dr Marlene Attzs, Economist Email: marlene.attzs@gmail.com I read His Grace’s column ‘At the other end of the rope’ (February 11–17). His Grace’s article was a […]